Over the years, the perennially pajama-clad Hef was interviewed often by the Los Angeles Times. "Messages regarding human sexuality have always been mixed in America. But the one thing that got left out of all those laws was human sexuality." On the life he made for himself:"Much of my life has been like an adolescent dream of an adult life,” he told The Times in 1992. I wanted to have a place where people came to hang out as they did at Rick's," he said in 2010.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 28, 2017 16:52 UTC